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    Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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    I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as the source of life willing me to live fully, the source of love calling me to love wastefully and to borrow a phrase from the theologian, Paul Tillich, as the Ground of being, calling me to be all that I can be.

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    How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

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    I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It's like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I'm doing a good job, that kind of thing. It makes me feel better.

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    If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

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    If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

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    In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.

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    In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

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    I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

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    If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

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    If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.

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    I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.

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    In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

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    In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom.

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    In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

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    In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

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    It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

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    It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

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    Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

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    I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me. They were cluttered up with many thoughts about Buddhism.

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    I vow to live fully in each moment.

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    I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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    Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.

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    Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

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    Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.

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    Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.

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    Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

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    Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. All ethics and morality, and a sense of interconnectedness, come out of the act of paying attention.

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    Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

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    Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

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    Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it.

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    Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

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    Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.

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    Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

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    Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.

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    Mindfulness is the primary tool in that we get a little space between ourselves and the thoughts and then we actually can be more responsive, as in: Do I want to listen to that? Do I want to ignore it? Do I want to say "no thank you". Do I want to inquire if that's really true or helpful? So we start with mindfulness and we're not engaging, because as soon as we do that, we've given the critic authority. Instead, we want to notice the critic but not give it any attention, not really give it much value.

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    Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

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    Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

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    Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

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    Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

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    No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged.

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    No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

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    Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

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    No one teaches mindfulness better than Thich Nhat Hanh.

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    Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.

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    One's attention has to penetrate the chaotic activity, pass through all the layers of subtle thought, and at last emerge into silence. This is the basic process of transcending.

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    Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

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    Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

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    Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

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    Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.